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Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the Bank of England

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper contributes to the understanding of the complex relationship between British economic performance during the Napoleonic wars and the ‘West Indies’, as the Caribbean slave colonies were called. Not only did profits from slave‐based commerce provide financing for the growth of the financial sector, as has been claimed, but the risk of
Carolyn Sissoko, Mina Ishizu
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The delayed development of early brazilian financial historiography, 1890-1930 [PDF]

, 1999
La Historia Económica en Latinoamérica. Edición a cargo de Pablo Martín Aceña, Adolfo Meisel, Carlos Newland.Editada en la Fundación Empresa PúblicaEste trabajo presenta un visión panorámica de la evolución de la historiografía económica de la Primera ...
Triner, Gail
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The afterlife of artists. [PDF]

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2023
Cutting JE.
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Khipu Historiography

, 2020
Cet article porte sur l’étude des Khipus, assemblages de cordelettes utilisés dans les Andes afin de noter des informations telles que des données démographiques, des inventaires, des tributs, des histoires, des généalogies, des biographies, certains pouvant être considérés comme des lettres.
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Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract In this study, we explore the long‐run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differences in socio‐economic development across the South Livonia–Courland and the South Livonia–Lettgallia borders that emerged as a result of the ...
Theocharis N. Grigoriadis, Alise Vitola
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Mismanagement amid resource abundance: Sovereign risk, private sector credit rationing, and economic stagnation in Colombia, 1861‒98

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the relationship between national politics, sovereign default, credit rationing, and their effects on fiscal revenues and exports in nineteenth‐century Colombia. Using quantitative and qualitative analysis, it challenges existing narratives on Colombia's lack of sustained nineteenth‐century export‐led development, showing
Andrew Primmer
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Is There an Ethics for Historians? [PDF]

, 2009
How should historians treat one another? More generally, what are the ethical obligations that go with belonging to the profession of history? And more generally still, in what ways and in what sense is history a profession and how are professional ...
Tapper, Alan
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Goodbye connections, hello Bagehot: democratization, lender of last resort independence and bank failures in Spain in 1931

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Did democratization reduce the likelihood of politically connected bank bailouts in the past? What role did private central banks play as independent lenders of last resort? To answer these questions, this article provides new detailed archival evidence on the causes of bank failures in Spain in July 1931.
Enrique Jorge‐Sotelo
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Alkimia Operativa and Alkimia Speculativa. Some Modern Controversies on the Historiography of Alchemy [PDF]

, 2010
The accent on scientific and empirical character of alchemy, especially from the field of the history of science, promotes the idea that one can understand the cryptic and metaphorical language of alchemy mainly through the laboratory chemical practice ...
Calian, Florin George
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By‐employment in the Yangtze Valley in the long twentieth century: Specialization, structural change, and the land systems

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Evidence on by‐employment in long‐run economic development is limited in existing literature worldwide. This study constructed a new dataset comprising 74 515 occupational observations with 4890 by‐employed individuals derived from Chinese lineage genealogies.
Ying Dai
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